Advertising; Brick wall signs; Signs (Notices); Stores & shops; Office buildings; Automobiles; Dwellings; Houses; Utility poles; Louisville Gas and Electric Company; Transportation
Taken for Louisville Gas & Electric, this photograph shows route of power lines after purchase of home telephone poles and consolidation of lines. Utility lines have been placed in a row down Frankfort Avenue. On the right side are some homes....
Students from Central High School stand in front of what is likely the school. The students where band uniforms with hats and capes. The front line includes the drums, drum major, and a man in a suit who is likely the band director. Several rows of...
African Americans; Children; Group portraits; Schools; People
Location: Thirteenth and Liberty Streets, Louisville, Kentucky. Hundreds of African American school children and their teachers pose for a portrait in front of their school. This may be Samuel Coleridge-Taylor Elementary School at 1228 W. Liberty...
African Americans; Men; Hand tools; Hammers; Shoes; Shoemakers; Shoemaking; People
An African American man sits on a wooden bench and uses a hammer on the sole of a boot supported on a metal pole. He wears a work apron over his knee-length pants and button-up shirt with tie. Tongs, shoehorns, and more shoes wait on the bench next...
African Americans; Women; Hats; Political participation; Political posters; People
Four African American stand in the street. One of them is writing on a sheaf of paper. All of the women wear hats and jackets. Political advertising is visible posted on the walls behind the women.
American Legion; Veterans' organizations; Military bands; Parades & processions
Drum and Bugle Corps, Jefferson Post American Legion, Kentucky, posed lengthwise on a boulevard in front of a building with a sign on the side saying "Jefferson Garage." The men are playing music facing two conductors. One drum is...
American Legion; Veterans' organizations; Military bands; Parades & processions
Drum and Bugle Corps, Jefferson Post American Legion, Kentucky. Drummers march and drum across an outdoor stadium, led by a man in white uniform with tasseled bucket hat; the drummers are wearing white pants with stripes, dark coats with light...
American Legion; Veterans' organizations; Military bands; Parades & processions
Drum and Bugle Corps of Jefferson Post American Legion standing for group photograph on a formal indoor stairway overlaid with marble, Kentucky. The Corps are wearing white shoes, white pants with stripes, dark coats with light embellishments,...
Woodblock prints of, clockwise from top left: man in tunic seated among four male lions; knights on horseback jousting outside castle; girl and boy listening to man seated on porch smoking pipe and holding skull; number 11; man wearing turban and...
Animals; Money; Boston Tea Party, 1773; Demonstrations; Costumes; Children; Men; Women; Snow; Play (Recreation); Kites; Domestic life; Reading; Sewing; Monks; Rescue work; Windmills; Indians of North America
This set of woodblock prints was reprinted in the 1980s. With the exception of the dog dropping something in water, the images duplicate the earlier prints in this collection. Woodblock prints of, from left to right starting at top left: dog...
Animals; Street railroads; Children; Play (Recreation); Toys; Writing; Reading; Sleeping; Men; Lathes; Shepherds; Barrels; Women; Flowers; Plants; Trees; Urns; Inkstands
Woodblock prints of, from top left and starting with larger images: fox ready to pounce on rabbit, hidden under tree root; 5-cent stamp, bearing image of horse-drawn trolley; mother cat leaping with arched back toward dog to protect her litter of...
An overturned and dented car sits at the corner of Walnut Street (now Muhammad Ali Boulevard) and Eighth Street, Louisville, Kentucky. A crowd of mostly African American men looks on. Many of them wear caps or hats and white shirts with jackets or...
A group of five women stand around a parked Model A Ford. The convertible has its spare tire attached to the side of the car near the front tire. The hood ornament is a running greyhound. The women wear tight-fitting hats and coats trimmed in fur....
Three women sit in a two-door car with a rumble seat, possibly a Model A Ford. The license plate hanging from the grille indicates Jefferson County, Kentucky. The convertible top is pulled back but the women are bundled up in coats and hats....
A woman stands near the sidewalk on the side of a car. She looks toward a man holding either a map or an instruction manual as he stands in front of a second car with "Automobile Club Free Road Service" painted on the side. Both wear...
Address: 1416 Cherokee Road, Louisville, Kentucky. Five men in suits and hats stand by five Lincoln automobiles. Each man stands at the front of what is, presumably, his car. A chauffeur is seated at the wheel of each vehicle. Behind the cars are...
Address: 1416 Cherokee Road, Louisville, Kentucky. Five men in suits and hats stand in a group in front of five Lincoln automobiles. A chauffeur is seated at the wheel of each vehicle. Behind the cars are the multi-story homes of Cherokee Triangle...
Three women and a man sit in an open automobile parked at a curb, apparently preparing to enter a parade. The car, which has a number on the side, is covered with decorative paper flowers. The women are wearing white, or light-colored, dresses and...
A woman in a fur coat stands with one hand on the open door of a Model A Ford. The license plate for the car indicates Jefferson County, Kentucky and is situated on the grille next to a horn. Two other women in coats and hats stand by the gate in a...
Three women in fur-lined coats and tight-fitting hats are posed in front of a Model A Ford by a river. One of the women sits on the running board of the car. Leaves cover the ground, but the deciduous trees in the background still have leaves as...
